BLOGWORDS – Friday 7 February 2025 – TUESDAY REVIEWS-DAY – CATCH-UP BLITZ - BOOK REVIEW – WHERE ARE YOU NOW BY MARY HIGGINS CLARK

BLOGWORDS – Friday 7 February 2025 – TUESDAY REVIEWS-DAY – CATCH-UP BLITZ - BOOK REVIEW – WHERE ARE YOU NOW BY MARY HIGGINS CLARK

 

TUESDAY REVIEWS-DAY CATCH-UP BLITZ - BOOK REVIEW – WHERE ARE YOU NOW BY MARY HIGGINS CLARK

 

THE BOOK

 

 

THE BLURB

It has been ten years since twenty-one-year-old Charles MacKenzie Jr. (“Mack”) went missing. A Columbia University senior, about to graduate and already accepted at Duke University Law School, he walked out of his apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side without a word to his college roommates and has never been seen again. However, he does make one ritual phone call to his mother every year: on Mother’s Day. Each time, he assures her he is fine, refuses to answer her frantic questions, then hangs up. Even the death of his father, a corporate lawyer, in the tragedy of 9/11 does not bring him home or break the pattern of his calls.

Mack’s sister, Carolyn, is now twenty-six, a law school graduate, and has just finished her clerkship for a civil court judge in Manhattan. She has endured two family tragedies, yet she realizes that she will never be able to have closure and get on with her life until she finds her brother. She resolves to discover what happened to Mack and why he has found it necessary to hide from them. So this year when Mack makes his annual Mother’s Day call, Carolyn interrupts to announce her intention to track him down, no matter what it takes. The next morning after Mass, her uncle, Monsignor Devon MacKenzie, receives a scrawled message left in the collection basket: “Uncle Devon, tell Carolyn she must not look for me.”

 

THE AUTHOR

 

 

 

 

 

Mary Higgins Clark is the author of twenty-two worldwide bestselling works of fiction and a memoir. She lives in Saddle River, New Jersey, with her husband.

 

MY REVIEW

It’s the not knowing that’s the hardest. Wondering, waiting, hoping against hope.

Clinging to that one phone call every year, believing against all odds that her brother would one day come home.

But the note. Meant to curb Carolyn’s search for Mack, it only serves to increase her need to find her brother.

First one suspect, then another—then the story twists back to an earlier suspect. Rabbit trail after rabbit trail, dead after another, Ms. Clark takes her reader on an adventure of a story.

 

ROBIN’S FEATHERS

FOUR FEATHERS

 

 

I purchased this book and offer my review of my own free will. The opinions expressed in my review are my own honest thoughts and reaction to this book.

 

 

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